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Events diary – May 2018 onward

80+ events in May 2018 about UK fracking and onshore oil and gas, including

Ineos and Reach CSG judicial review against the Scottish Government over indefinite fracking moratorium;

Final week of Ineos appeal over non-determination of application for shale gas exploration at Harthill;

United Resistance campaign continues outside Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site near Blackpool;

Screenings of Power Trip, a film about the anti-fracking movement;

Solidarity weekend at Misson Springs;

Comment deadline on changes to the National Planning Policy Framework;

Information drop-in meetings.

Please let us know here if you’d like us to add your events or if any details are wrong. This post will be updated throughout the month with new information and includes events that we know about in the rest of 2018.

Tuesday 1 May 2018

United Resistance – Week Five Art and Music Against Fracking.Part of 13-week campaign against Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas operations. Solidarity through sound. Starting at 7am, Preston New Road, Little Plumpton, near Blackpool PR4 3PE. Details

Wednesday 2 May 2018

Public inquiry into INEOS appeal over non-determination of application for shale gas exploration at Harthill. Start time to be confirmed. The Gallery, Riverside House, Main Street, Rotherham, S60 1AE. Details

Thursday 3 May 2018

United Resistance – Week Five Art and Music Against Fracking.Part of 13-week campaign against Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas operations. Do a little dance day. Starting at 7am, Preston New Road, Little Plumpton, near Blackpool PR4 3PE. Details

Public inquiry into INEOS appeal over non-determination of application for shale gas exploration at Harthill. Start time to be confirmed. The Gallery, Riverside House, Main Street, Rotherham, S60 1AE. Details

Drop-in session on Derbyshire Minerals Local Plan. Opportunity for people to talk to county council officers about the draft plan. 11.30am-6.30pm, Whitworth Centre, Dale Road North, Darley Dale, Matlock DE4 2EQ Details

Friday 4 May 2018

United Resistance – Week Five Art and Music Against Fracking.Part of 13-week campaign against Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas operations. Circus skills and art exhibition. Starting at 7am, Preston New Road, Little Plumpton, near Blackpool PR4 3PE. Details

Trial of anti-fracking campaigner. The campaigner was removed from a 2m wooden tower outside the entrance to Third Energy’s fracking site at Kirby Misperton. 10am York Magistrates Court, Clifford Street, York YO1 9RE. Details

Public inquiry into INEOS appeal over non-determination of application for shale gas exploration at Harthill. Start time to be confirmed. The Gallery, Riverside House, Main Street, Rotherham, S60 1AE. Details

Gig Against the Rig – the circus is coming. 8pm-10.30pm, The Plough Inn, Coldharbour, near Dorking RH5 6HD. Details

Saturday 5 May 2018

United Resistance – Week Five Art and Music Against Fracking.Part of 13-week campaign against Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas operations. Live music all day. Starting at 7am, Preston New Road, Little Plumpton, near Blackpool PR4 3PE. Details

Sunday 6 May 2018

Monday 7 May 2018

United Resistance – Save Our Land/Friends of the Earth week. Week six in the campaign against Cuadrilla’s fracking plans at Preston New Road near Blackpool. Maple Farm Community Hub, Preston New Road, Little Plumpton PR4 3PE. Details

Chesterfield May Day. David Kesteven, of Eckington Against Fracking, will be speaking from town hall steps at 10.45am. 10.30am assemble at Town Hall, 11am March, 11.45 rally at New Square, 12.30pm music, stalls and street entertainment at New Square.

Film screening of Power Trip: Fracking in the UK. 7pm-8.30pm, The Bureau Centre for the Arts, 25 Victoria Street, Blackburn BB1 6DW. Details

Tuesday 8 May 2018

United Resistance – Save Our Land/Friends of the Earth week. Week six in the campaign against Cuadrilla’s fracking plans at Preston New Road near Blackpool. Maple Farm Community Hub, Preston New Road, Little Plumpton PR4 3PE. Details

Start of substantive hearing in the judicial review by INEOS and Reach Coal Seam Gas against the Scottish Government. The Court of Session, Edinburgh. Details

United Resistance – Save Our Land/Friends of the Earth week. Week six in the campaign against Cuadrilla’s fracking plans at Preston New Road near Blackpool. Maple Farm Community Hub, Preston New Road, Little Plumpton PR4 3PE. Details

Mosborough Against Fracking meeting. Includes presentation by David Kesteven, of Eckington Against Fracking on the upcoming public inquiry on Ineos plans for Marsh Lane. 7.30pm, The Queen, 135 High Street, Mosborough S20 5AF. Details

Thursday 10 May 2018

United Resistance – Save Our Land/Friends of the Earth week. Week six in the campaign against Cuadrilla’s fracking plans at Preston New Road near Blackpool. Maple Farm Community Hub, Preston New Road, Little Plumpton PR4 3PE. Details

Opening of The Lark Descending. An exhibition by artists Ackroyd and Harvey from a bird’s eye view of Leith Hill in Surrey to the oil that lies below. 11am-5pm, runs until 27 May 2018. Unit 4, St Martin’s Walk, Dorking RH4 1UT. Details

Film screening of Power Trip: Fracking in the UK. 7pm-9.30pm, YMCA international community centre, 61B Mansfield Road, Nottingham NG1 3FN. Details

Friday 11 May 2018

United Resistance – Save Our Land/Friends of the Earth week. Week six in the campaign against Cuadrilla’s fracking plans at Preston New Road near Blackpool. Maple Farm Community Hub, Preston New Road, Little Plumpton PR4 3PE. Details

Should we put a price on carbon? Lecture in association with Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures. 5.30pm-7pm, The Diamond Lecture Theatre 8, The University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield S3 7RD. Details

Film screening of Power Trip: Fracking in the UK. 7.15pm-9.15pm, Ravenshead Village Hall, 11 Vernon Crescent, Ravenshead NG15 9BP. Details

Saturday 12 May 2018

Launch date of The Bentley Effect DVD – a film about the campaign to stop drilling for coal seam gas in the Australian town of Bentley. Web link for orders

Monday 14 May 2018

Cake day in Lancashire and Yorkshire Week of the United Resistance campaign. Maple Farm, Preston New Road Road, near Blackpool PR4 3PE.

Meeting of Lincolnshire County Council planning committee on applications by Egdon Resources for drilling at North Kelsey and Biscathorpe. 10am, Council Chamber, County Offices, Newland, Lincoln LN1 1YL. Details

Opening of The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Human Rights, Fracking and Climate Change. All sessions are online. The sessions run until Friday 18 May. Link to schedule. (Timings are Pacific Time – eight hours ahead of British Summer Time). More details on the tribunal

Day of sessions of The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Human Rights, Fracking and Climate Change. All sessions are online. Link to schedule. (Timings are Pacific Time – eight hours ahead of British Summer Time). More details on the tribunal

Drop-in information session about Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road fracking site near Blackpool. Hosted by the Environment Agency, Oil and Gas Authority, Public Health England, Health and Safety Executive, Lancashire County Council and Fylde Council. 3pm-7.30pm, Weeton Village Hall, Church Road, Weeton PR4 3WD.

Day of sessions of The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Human Rights, Fracking and Climate Change. All sessions are online. Link to schedule. (Timings are Pacific Time – eight hours ahead of British Summer Time). More details on the tribuna

Thursday 17 May 2018

United Resistance week seven – Uniting the Roses.7am-6.30pm, Maple Farm, Preston New Road Road, near Blackpool PR4 3PE, including Sunshine Day events with music, refreshments and punch and judy. Details

Day of sessions of The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Human Rights, Fracking and Climate Change. All sessions are online. Link to schedule. (Timings are Pacific Time – eight hours ahead of British Summer Time). More details on the tribuna

Day of sessions of The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Human Rights, Fracking and Climate Change. All sessions are online. Link to schedule. (Timings are Pacific Time – eight hours ahead of British Summer Time). More details on the tribuna

Film screening of Power Trip: Fracking in the UK. 7pm-11pm, St Paul’s West Hackney, 182 Stoke Newington Road, London N16 7UY. Details

Oral evidence session to Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee on planning guidance for fracking. Witnesses include Dominic Raab MP, Minister of State for Housing, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Claire Perry MP, Minister of State for Energy and Clean Growth, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. 4pm, The Wilson Room, Portcullis House, Bridge Street, London SW1. Details

Tuesday 22 May 2018

Launch of report by Professor Peter Styles: Fracking and Historic Coal Mining: their relationship and should they coincide?’ Hosted by Baroness Featherstone. 2pm Houses of Parliament.

Are we going to be fracked?Presentation and questions. 7pm, The Union, 300 Barrow Road, Sheffield S9 1JQ. DetailsMOVED TO 15 MAY 2018

Wednesday 23 May 2018

Scheduled meeting of Surrey County Council planning committee. The committee is expected to consider Europa’s plans for fencing and additional buildings at its site at Bury Hill Wood near Leith Hill. 10.30am, Aschcombe Suite, County Hall, Surrey County Council, Kingston upon Thames. Surrey KT1 2DN Details

Film screening of Power Trip: Fracking in the UK. Followed by Q and A with film maker Paul O’Connor and DrillOrDrop’s Ruth Hayhurst. 8.30pm, The Depot Cinema, Pinwell Lane, Lewes, East Sussex. BN7 2JS. Details

Thursday 24 May 2018

Film screening of Power Trip: Fracking in the UK. Forest of Dean. Details to be confirmed

Wednesday 30 May 2018

Thursday 31 May 2018

Scheduled date for hearing at the High Court in Manchester on Cuadrilla’s application to extend its injunction at Preston New Road. 10.30am, Manchester High Court District Registry, Civil Justice Centre, 1 Bridge Street West, Manchester M60 9DJ.

Surrey County Council planning and regulatory committee meeting. This is due to discuss Angus Energy’s application, part retrospective, for the BRX4-z sidetrack, continued operation of well BRX4 and cabins on the site. 10.30am, Ashcombe Suite, County Hall, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2DN. Details

Monday 2 July 2018

Expected week in which six Sussex and Surrey residents will challenge the UKOG protest injunction at heard at the High Court in London. More details to come

Wednesday 4 July

Lawsuit by Plan B Earth against the UK Government aiming to compel elected officials to align the country’s climate change policy with the best available science. 9.30am-4.30pm, Royal Courts of Justice, the Strand, London WC2. Details

Thursday 5 July 2018

Wednesday 11 July 2018

International Association of Hydrogeologists meeting on the use of the deep subsurface in the UK: what are the implications for groundwater resources?Details

Thursday 12 July 2018

International Association of Hydrogeologists meeting on the use of the deep subsurface in the UK: what are the implications for groundwater resources?Details

Friday 13 July 2018

Scheduled hearing at the High Court on Ineos Shale case against the National Trust. The hearing will decide who will be able to participate in the final case from people who have objected to the company’s plans for seismic testing in Clumber Park. Time and venue to be confirmed. More details

Tuesday 17 July 2018

Thursday 26 July 2018

Publication of Energy and Climate Change Public Attitudes Tracker. Findings from Wave 26 survey published at 9.30am. Link

Saturday 28 July 2018

Horse Hill start for fund-raising walk. Financial bloggers, Dan Levi, and Tom Winnifrith, are raising money for Woodlarks on a 30-mile one-day walk, starting at the Horse Hill oil drilling site. The walk ends at the Woodlarks campsite which provides holidays for people with severe disabilities. Link to fundraising page